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Businesses are the new political unit in the United States - employers are currently more accountable to workers than politicians to constituents. This is a shift workers need to leverage!

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We went quickly from "The government should protect us from these private cooperations" to "Private cooperations should protect us from the government".

Not a happy place to be...

But if politicians choose their constituents and thus stack representation in such a way they need not to be responsible to the population... I don't blame for folks trying to find another way around.

I think you misinterpreted the above - the point is that the locale of power shifts, and common people need to trace these changes and take advantage of opportunities, for the welfare of all. It’s not about seeking “protection” from anyone. It’s about making sure the people have a say in the events that impact our lives.

I’ve been back and forth on this and I feel like your argument has just convinced me that workers should take advantage of this. If the government is now only accountable to PACs and big donors, is the end game that corporations will be the only lever of power for citizens? It will be like a weird capitalist dystopia where depending on how successful your company is that’s the proportion of power you get as a worker.

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